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I was trying to create a database during installing Oracle8i EE (8.1.7) on Solaris 8. It failed when the database creation progress went to initialize database (Creating and starting Oracle instance, copying database files are OK. I used the typical option to create database.) I got a error message:

ORA-03114 : not connected to ORACLE

After installation, I tried to use dbassist to create a database and got the same result. So now there is no any database existing in my Oracle 8i.

You can now create the database using the dbassist and it would help you to create your database. Before running the dbassist, I would make sure that the environment variables had been set correctly. THen would proceed with the database creation.

Try it and let us know if you have any problems. BTW, the dbassist would also detect any database instances on the system, if they had already been created. You can use the delete option to check and delete the instance, if you find it to exist, before creating the instance of the same name again.